Ukrainian soldiers fired their weapons during training near the city of Lviv in March. Photo: AP
Time is short. Veterans’ deposits are gone Russian weapons that Ukrainians know. Now we have to go fast complex weapons and training in the West, as the military will soon close so -called “windows of opportunity” to launch counterattacks to stop Russia’s offensives in eastern and southern Ukraine.
At the meeting two days ago in Ramstein, Germany, between the United States and 43 allied countries, this pressure was exerted by the Head of the Pentagon and Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin.
Ang training is now needed and if the transfer of arms to Ukraine becomes more difficult every day, it will be a priority to extend a cloak of secrecy on the mechanisms and movements of trainers who require between three days and a week to explain and train the military of Ukraine how these weapons work.
Secret
Secret security was the top priority, after Soviet-military communications picked up by Western eavesdropping indicated that the next line of Russians would be the Ukrainian soldiers seen in NATO countries learning to use Western systems. “legal targets” of war to be removed “immediately”.
This directive could have very serious consequences because it assumes that if the Russians see a training camp in Poland, Romania, Slovakia or other countries on the border with Ukraine, they could launch missile attacks. from their bases capable of destroying them.
A Ukrainian soldier fired an anti-tank missile during training in the Donetsk region in February. Photo: AP
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The weapons carried by planes from NATO, the Western military alliance, to neighboring countries to pass them on to the Ukrainians, are welcomed by the soldiers who will then take them to their country until they are be sent to the battlefields.
They already include other soldiers in charge of receiving theoretical and practical instructions for making the material.
With the widespread advent of more complex Western weapons, The role of trainers is important.
It was learned that at a base in the southern United States, the Americans were training soldiers from Ukraine to become proficient in handling the Switchblade drone, which weighed only three kilograms.
Switchblade is already proving its value on the battlefronts of eastern Ukraine. It consists of a launcher tube through which the kamikaze drone exits, self -destructing on target impact.
to take it just carry it in a special backpack.
Details
The drone can fly in 40 minutes, with a radius of action of 11 kilometers and costs only six thousand dollars, covered by the 2.8 billion dollars made by the US in favor of Ukraine.
A weapon made in Swedish, part of the arsenal received by the Ukrainian military. Photo: AP
Taught by Americans in they had been training Ukrainian forces for fourteen years the cost of small mobile infantry units that serve to slow Russia’s advance through ambushes, bite-and-run raids, and other actions behind the lines.
The kamikaze Switchblade was developed at the request of US Army special units.
One action that has proven very effective is for the drone carrier to position itself in a protected position, away from the reaction of fire, and burn the drone.
The mini vehicle sends images of the area and is activated to punish the buried nucleus, which could be a cannon, a light vehicle, a machine gun nest or anti-tank.
The NBC television network announced the existence of the training camp and the effectiveness of which the Switchblade is already in use in Ukraine.
years of training
Ang program for training of the Ukrainian military apparatus of the Americans and British has expanded since Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula in 2014 and the revolt of pro-Russian separatists began in the Donbas region to the east.
An anonymous U.S. military specialist explained that “the transformation of a rigid and slow army post-Soviet structure into an effective and fast force, was largely the result of intensive training began 29 years ago of military exchanges between Ukrainians and Western forces, specifically between NATO and kyiv.
According to US sources, the result of the exercise was that the world was “surprised at the great professional capacity of the Ukrainian military and their collective courage to repel the invasion of a larger and better equipped army such of Russian “.
Manstein’s recent meeting to organize the collection of weapons from more than 40 countries, gave as the first result of the creation, in Stuttgart, at another North American base, of great center of European military coordination.
A shipment of weapons and ammunition ready to be shipped to Ukraine, at the U.S. Air Force base in Dover, Delaware, in January. Photo: AP
logistics
A remarkable effort is the creation of air transport lines for weapons and movements of those holding and trained, including ammunition and forming centers of military activity.
The Russians are trying to prevent the collapse of weapons and prepare military attacks. It is estimated, for example, that the reductions in gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria are associated with intense movements of weapons and rapid training of ex-Soviet material.
The Bulgarians even launched unarmed Mig-29 aircraft and boosted their active war industry with secret sales. Poland and Bulgaria are part of NATO and the European Union.
Poland is the main theater for the transfer of material within Ukraine and a part of rapid training.
Under the veil of silence around the mechanisms and key training personnel, the newspaper The Times of London revealed that the British special forces “SAS” were fLeads the Ukrainian military in the use of anti-tank missiles and other weapons supplied to the country invaded by Russia.
The British moved into Ukrainian territory and taught to use Nlaw, the system of New Generation of Light Anti-tank Weapons. These were the missiles that were already in use when Russia’s first bombings began.
Also in the early days of the invasion there was a intense training with the use of lightweight models of bazookas, easy to carry, accurate and effective in centering on targets.
The British SAS training camp is in Obolon, a few kilometers from kyiv, according to Hours.
The military of Ukraine does not know about these weapons but quickly learned. So the “men” were invited to return after the war to entertain the gratitude of the locals.
Soviet aircraft
As the planes arrived and training with Western-made jets was underway, Ukrainians were searching the borders of NATO countries for old Russian fighter-bombers to be able to cannibalize with parts. missing in veteran planes in need of spare parts.
A Ukrainian soldier stands in front of buildings destroyed by Russian attacks in Borodianka, outside kyiv, on Thursday. Photo: REUTERS
In this case the Russians are looking not for trainers but for specialists in rebuilding obsolete aircraft with old parts. Last week, a Ukrainian spokesman said that “there were more fighters in flight than at the beginning of the war”, when a good portion of the air force was lost.
Washington Post also interviewed a veteran commander of a unit fighting in the Donbas region, who recounted that his soldiers had been trained by NATO in almost multinational training.
“We are moving away from the Russia-Soviet tradition,” the military man explained. “Now the important thing is to start handling the Western arsenal, such as Howitzer cannons or Switchblade drones, which we are already using with great results thanks to the companions who have received training abroad,” he explains.
the english diary Guardianmeanwhile, reported that a senior U.S. defense official who preferred anonymity said an inaccurate number of Russian forces were moving from Mariupol, besieged by Moscow troops, towards North West.
He also reported that in addition to training Ukrainian forces in the use of howitzers, Kyiv’s military is training “outside Ukraine” with the use of a mobile radar system and the M113 armored personnel carrier.
German tanks
The Germans, who decided to send heavy weapons, began to train Ukrainian servicemen.
Forbes writes that “this is a huge logistical effort. When the ammunition of Russia’s systems is exhausted, Ukraine will have to switch to Western artillery.”
There is already a problem, as thick ammunition is 155 mm caliber in NATO countries while Soviet constructions only reach 152 mm.
The Germans were training Ukrainians in the knowledge of Panzerfaust anti-tank weapons and there were several models of tanks in their warehouses, waiting for the sending of military personnel from kyiv to train them in the new models.
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbok said Germany prefers not to make aid public, and Prime Minister Olaf Scholz offered to fund Ukraine to acquire various types of weapons.
Since the coordination center is located in Germany with the US base in Stuttgart, it is expected that German lands will serve to open secret training centers for military personnel from kyiv to use weapons to be sent to war theaters through Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
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Source: Clarin
